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VALA2004 Session 1 Ayres

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MusicAustralia: Building on National Infrastructure

VALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Managing Digital Objects
Tuesday 3 February 2004, 11:55 – 12:30

Marie-Louise Ayres

Project Manager, MusicAustralia, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

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MusicAustralia is a portal for anyone interested in Australian music. A joint development of the National Library of Australia and ScreenSound Australia, National Screen and Sound Archive, it provides users with access to a federated resource discovery service for Australian music in notated and audio representations and in digital and non-digital formats, and a directory service providing information on people, organisations and services associated with Australian music. This paper outlines the reasons for placing the National Bibliographic Database at the heart of MusicAustralia federation activity and the infrastructure elements and business processes developed to support this architecture.

VALA2004 Session 9 Moloney

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A portal for the people: National Library & your local public library = new access paradigm

VALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 9: Portals
Wednesday 4 February 2004, 14:35 – 15:05

Kylie Moloney

Kinetica Customer Services, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

Roxanne Missingham

Assistant Director General, Resource Sharing Division, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

Christine MacKenzie

CEO, Yarra Plenty Regional Library
http://www.yprl.vic.gov.au

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Australians are avid seekers and consumers of information in a great variety of forms. The National Library is working with five public libraries to better understand the information resource needs of Australians. Information Australia is a twelve-month pilot providing a more integrated approach to information via a web portal for Australians. This paper outlines the development of the pilot portal, including policy and technical issues and future possibilities for a service available to all Australian libraries.

VALA2004 Session 13 Pearce

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The Hybrid Library Revisited

VALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 13: Extending the ILMS
Thursday 5 February 2004, 14:35 – 15:05

Judith Pearce

Director, Web services, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

Monica Berko

Director, Applications, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

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Four years out, this paper revisits the theme of VALA2000 and looks at the extent to which integrated library management systems have been developed to operate as hybrid library systems by focussing on the National Library of Australia’s requirements in this area. A range of commercial portal products now extend (and may eventually replace) the OPAC. However, there is still a gap in the market place for workflow systems supporting the routine digitisation of collection material. In addition, library system vendors are only just beginning to provide the level of support needed by libraries that wish to build innovative web-based services based on the catalogue.

VALA2000 Session 10 Berthon

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The moving frontier: archiving, preservation and tomorrow’s digital heritage

VALA 2000 CONCURRENT SESSION 10: Archiving
Friday 18 February 2000, 10:45 – 11:15

Hilary Berthon

Manager, National & International Preservation Activities, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

Colin Webb

Director, Preservation Services Branch, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au


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Digital publications are a significant part of tomorrow’s heritage of digital information. However, there is a growing understanding that tomorrow’s digital heritage will simply not be available without concerted action. This paper reviews international progress in digital archiving and preservation over the past one to two years. In that time, we have seen some developments in international collaboration, many archiving models being tested, active work on a range of facilitating issues, and an ongoing debate over the most appropriate long-term preservation strategies. However, a number of problematical issues remain. A most encouraging trend is the ongoing commitment to sharing information. The National Library of Australia’s PADI website has been re-developed as an international digital preservation forum, charting progress in finding workable solutions that can be applied by Australian libraries.

VALA2000 Session 11 Campbell

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Australian subject gateways – metadata as an agent of change

VALA 2000 CONCURRENT SESSION 11: Metadata
Friday 18 February 2000, 10:45 – 11:15

Debbie Campbell

Manager, Infrastructure Projects National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au


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Although the concept of a subject gateway has only risen to prominence in Australia during the last two years, several university library consortia and other education- based initiatives, including EdNA Online and the Australian Digital Theses Project, have already been successful in achieving collaborative approaches for the delivery of national access to electronic resources. The critical success factors realised, including the deployment of metadata and the community approaches to problem solving, mean that Australia is positioned to participate in new initiatives exploring service provision in a national infrastructure for integrated research and information access.

VALA2000 Session 1 Pearce

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The challenge of integrated access: the hybrid library system of the future.

VALA 2000 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Hybrid Libraries
Wednesday 16 February 2000, 10:45 – 11:45

Judith Pearce

Director, Web Services, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

Warwick Cathro

Assistant Directory General, Information Technology Division, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

Tony Boston

Director, Digital Services Project, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au


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VALA2000 Session 1 Pearce Paper 418.31 KB

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In this paper we discuss the role of the OPAC as a hybrid library service and of the catalogue server as a provider element in a hybrid information environment. We identify developments required in the search and retrieval capabilities of the catalogue server to operate effectively in such an environment. We look under the hybrid library bonnet at the functions and metadata needed for management of online and physical collections. Lastly, we look at the architecture needing to be supported by library systems for storage and delivery of digital collections in a hybrid information environment.

VALA2010 Session 7 Hagon

VALA20120Everything I know about cataloguing I learned from watching James Bond

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 7 – Innovation
Wednesday 10 February 2010 14:20 – 14:50
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VALA Peer Reviewed PaperPaul Hagon

Senior Web Designer, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

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Is it enough to rely on human interpretation for cataloguing our collections, or like James Bond, will we require high tech gadgets to get the job done? Image searches now analyse the pixel-by-pixel colour values of an image, allowing searching by colour. Consumer-grade photo management software incorporates facial recognition, allowing us to identify individuals. When researching, will we be querying the content to get the metadata or will we still be relying on querying the metadata to deliver the content? Will these technologies filter down into the way we catalogue items within our collections, or will this be a layer that enhances our traditional cataloguing methodologies or provides an additional service for our users?

VALA2010 Session 7 Cathro

VALA20120Developing Trove: the policy and technical challenges

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 7 – Innovation
Wednesday 10 February 2010 13:45 – 14:15
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VALA Peer Reviewed PaperWarwick Cathro

Assistant Director-General, Resource Sharing and Innovation, National Library of Australia
http://trove.nla.gov.au

Susan Collier

Project Manager, Trove Project, National Library of Australia
http://trove.nla.gov.au

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    VALA2010 Session 7 Cathro Paper 151.94 KB
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    VALA2010 Session 7 Cathro Podcast 12.60 MB

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In September 2008 the National Library of Australia embarked on a project to develop a powerful new discovery service to expose the wealth of information in Australian collections. The new service, branded “Trove”, was released in December 2009 after six months as a beta service. Trove is not only replacing eight legacy services, but is improving the discovery experience for the Australian public and researchers by including more content and by allowing users to engage with the content. This paper will describe the policy and technical challenges which were faced by the Library during this project, and will outline the Library’s plans for the further development of Trove.

VALA2010 Session 1 Graham

VALA20120Making our catalogue as easy as 1, 2, 3

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Discovery
Tuesday 9 February 2010, 10:50 – 11:20
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Bobby GrahamVALA Peer Reviewed Paper

Director Web Publishing (Acting), National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

Paul Hagon

Senior Web Designer, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

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    VALA2010 Session 1 Graham Paper 1.71 MB
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A library’s catalogue is core to a library’s existence. The National Library of Australia recognises this and spends a great deal of time, energy and money on the data that goes into the catalogue. Less attention is spent on design and user experience. This changed in May 2008 when the National Library of Australia implemented VuFind as the new online catalogue. A year after this implementation, the Library reviewed the user behaviour and usability of the VuFind online catalogue. This paper outlines the process of that review, what the review has delivered and how we can use this information to meet the ever-increasing user expectations.

VALA2008 Session 8 Henderson

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperDevelopment of a rights management system for the National Library of Australia’s collections

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 8: Intellectual Property
Wednesday 6 February 2008 14:35 – 15:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-8-henderson

Sandra Henderson

Executive Support Branch, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

Matthew Walker

Collection Infrastructure, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

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This paper explains some of the work done during the Rights Management project at the National Library of Australia, looking at the background to the project, the expected benefits, the process of design and development and user engagement, and explains how some of the many challenges encountered to date have been met.